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Nucleosome structure
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<Structure load='1aoi' size='800' frame='true' align='right' caption='Nucleosoma' scene='60/602771/Proteinas/5'/> | <Structure load='1aoi' size='800' frame='true' align='right' caption='Nucleosoma' scene='60/602771/Proteinas/5'/> | ||
| - | <big><big>''' | + | <big><big>'''Nucleosomes''' are the basic building blocks of '''chromatin fibers'''. A nucleosome consists of a core containing '''an octamer of histone proteins''' and a '''DNA''' molecule 146 bp long wound around this core in two complete turns. |
| - | + | The histone protein octamer includes four types of proteins: <scene name='60/602771/Histonah2a/1'>H2A</scene>, <scene name='60/602771/Histonah2b/1'>H2B</scene>, <scene name='60/602771/Histonah3/1'>H3</scene> y <scene name='60/602771/Histonah4/1'>H4</scene>. Histone proteins are organized in dimers so: | |
*Two H3-H4 dimers | *Two H3-H4 dimers | ||
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Nucleosomes are the basic building blocks of chromatin fibers. A nucleosome consists of a core containing an octamer of histone proteins and a DNA molecule 146 bp long wound around this core in two complete turns. The histone protein octamer includes four types of proteins: , , y . Histone proteins are organized in dimers so:
- Two H3-H4 dimers
- Two H2A-H2B dimers
- molecule wound in around octamer. Some complete the whole structure.
The more widespread secondary structure in is .
If we situate the different types of amino acid residues in we can see that and are arranged so positively charged residues are in , where they can stablish ionic interations with . Such electric charges distributions stabilizes the whole structure.
References
This page is based on 1aoi file from Proteopedia.
1aoi is a 10 chain structure with sequence from Xenopus laevis. The July 2000 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Nucleosome by David S. Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2000_7. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
